From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 4 10: 4:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0E137B400 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 10:04:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.sentex.ca (smtp2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1048543E6A for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 10:04:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from house (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp2.sentex.ca (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g74H4M0u090887; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 13:04:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: David Banning Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dsl modem suggestions Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 13:06:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20020801030135.A54643@skytrackercanada.com> <20020801082207.5f0a968a.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:53:34 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you=20 >In my case, my DSL provider -sold- me the modem, but he also said that >I didn't have to get it from him. He said I could use -any- brand that >I wanted. Given your explanation, that would be "any modem as long as >it falls within such-and-such parameters." > It might just be a bad unit, or you dont have the right amount of phone filters or the filters are in the wrong place. We (an ISP) have used Alcatel, Efficient, Daewoo and g.net, Cisco and by far the lowest return rate we have had are with the GVC/Gnets. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message